You will hear a number of different recordings and you will have to answer questions on what

you hear. There will be time for you to read the instructions and questions and you will have a
chance to check your work. All the recordings will be played once only.The test is in four parts.
At the end of the test, you will be given 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer
sheet. Now turn to part one.

Part 1

You will hear a man called David asking for information about how to place an advertisement for
selling his laptop and other items first. You'll have some time to look at questions 1 to 5.

Listen carefully and answer questions 1 to 5.

Debbie: Hi, I'm Debbie. How can I help ?

David: hi, my name is David. I'm just looking to place an advertisement on the main Union
notice board to sell a laptop and a few accessories if that's possible.

Debbie:Sure. That's not a problem. I take it you are a member of the Student Union

David:Yes. I am

Debbie:right then. I'll just get a form up and as there is no one around and it looks as if it's going
to be quiet for a while, I'll just type the details straight into the computer for you.

David:thanks very much.

Debbie:No problem. Shall we just title it laptop for sale.

David:Yeah. Okay.

Debbie: Can you describe it generally?

David: Well, it is in very good condition. In fact, it's hardly been used.

Debbie:Why are you selling it? If I may ask?

David:Well, I've got another one which is much lighter and I don't really need to.

Debbie: I see what weight is the one you are selling.

David:It is 3.5 kilograms.

Debbie:That is heavy these days. Can you give more details about the one you want to sell?

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David: Right, Well, it is an Allegro and it's got all the latest programs.

Debbie:Okay. What about the memory

David: The memory is only 0.5 gigabytes.

Debbie:And what about the screen size and the other features?

David: Well screen is let's see it is 37.5 centimeters with a standard size keyboard and a
touchpad but I've got a cordless mouse that I can put in with it if necessary, some people don't
like using a touchpad.

Debbie:What about ports or holes for attaching things to the laptop?

David:It's got two ports.

Debbie:Mmm more modern laptops have more than two ports for all the extra attachments.

David:They do, let's see what else is important. Oh, yeah, the battery lasts for two and a half
hours, which is okay. But not enough for train Journeys, but one thing is that it's not wireless,

Debbie:right? Okay, not wireless.

Before you hear the rest of the conversation, you will have some time to look at
questions 6 to 10.

Now, listen, and answer questions 6 to 10.

Debbie:Anything else I can put on the advertisement.

David: There's a webcam built at the top of the screen and I can throw in a printer, a scanner
and headphones which I got with it in a special deal. It also comes with its own case for carrying
it around, actually the case is quite smart. I'm hoping these things will help it sell.

Debbie: They should do it right. I think I've got all that. How much do you want for it?

David:That I am not sure about it's about 900 pounds to a thousand pounds new.

Debbie:Yeah, but you won't get that much if it's used and even if it's in good condition.

David: What about 500 pounds?

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Debbie: I doubt if you get as much as that more like 200 pounds or 300 pounds, if you look at
the notice board, there is one on there which is comparable to yours and it's not more than
about 250 pounds. I think.

David: as little as that.

Debbie: I'm afraid. So shall we say 300 pounds.

David: okay, put that.

Debbie:Can I take some contact details for the advert?

David:The name's David Bristow

Debbie:B R I S T O W

David: Yes, that's it and mobile or email?

Debbie:Both if you want.

David:that's 09875423387 .

Debbie:That's it. If you send the picture, I'll add it and print it out and stick it up for you.

David:Okay, I can get that to you today.

Debbie:Right, I'll type in here ,advert placed the 22nd of October. Fine and good luck for the
sale.

David:Thanks.

That is the end of part one. You now have one minute to check your answers to part one.

Part 2

You will hear an announcement made by an official for the preparation plans for the
town's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebrations.First you'll have some time to
look at questions 11 to 15.

Now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 15.

And now for the preparation plans for the town's 250th anniversary celebrations. We are going
to follow the same system we had last year, but with a few changes to increase the party spirit,
first of all this time, we are going to make the concert on the Beach open to everyone without

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charge. This is because we have been given money by the council for the celebration and also
because last year we had so many problems with keeping people out who had not paid and on
top of this people will not have to pay for Refreshments either as these are being donated right
now. We are going to divide into four teams. The first one, the beach team will be responsible
for cleaning up the beach on the Saturday morning picking up litter bottles, plastic bags and
wood anything else that's lying around. Everyone is meeting at the beach shop. Shop at 8 a.m.
It's an early start but we want to give everywhere a good thorough clean. We have had
permission from the council to close the beach to get it ready for the anniversary celebration on
Sunday. The second team will be responsible for setting out seating in the Square for the
speeches and prize-giving again, an early start is preferable, but the vans with the seats can't
be there until 9 a.m. So shall we say that everyone should meet at the Village Hall at 9:30
starting then will allow extra time if the vans are late.

Now listen and answer questions 16 to 20. Before you hear the rest of the talk, you will
have some time to look at questions 16 to 20.

Now the third team will be the judges for each of the various competitions. We will have three
judges on the whole they will have had experience of judging before there will be a boat race, a
swimming competition and the best fancy dress. A cash prize will be given to the winner in each
category and for the two Runners up there will be book tokens. There is a sponsored mini
marathon and by the deadline lunchtime today we have 263 applicants with ages ranging from
15 to 60, that's 80 more than last year. Each entrant has paid a 20-pound registration fee to
enter and all the profits will go to the local children's hospital to help fund much-needed
specialist apparatus.The fourth team consists of the wardens for the day itself. We are
expecting at least 10,000 people if last year is anything to go by the fields near the entrance to
the beach can be used as car parks and we need wardens to help make sure the actual parking
is more organized than last year which was a mess. We also need someone to be in charge of
the first aid which will be at the entrance to the beach.

Finally, we need some volunteers for the cleanup last year. We didn't do this very well. And so
the council has agreed to provide large bags to collect all the recyclable material like glass and
plastic etc. But we have to deal with the rest like leftover food ourselves. We don't want to leave
piles of rotten food around or dangerous bottles.

That is the end of part 2. You now have 30 seconds to check your answers to part 2.

Part 3

You will hear a tutor and a student discussing a research project first. You'll have some
time to look at questions 21 to 26.

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Now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 26.

Tutor :Okay, is everyone ready, over the past two weeks? We've been listening to different
students giving a presentation on their research projects. So for this morning session, I'd like to
invite Susan to take the floor.

Susan: For my projects I looked at different types of study techniques and try to ascertain what
students' opinions of the different methods were. I began with lectures because Of course there
something we're all familiar with now the problem with lectures is that you have to sit and listen
for quite a long time. Sometimes it may be as much as 1 hour.Yet people's average
concentration span is only about 20 minutes. This means of course within the first half an hour.
Most people actually stop listening not consciously, of course, but you know what it is like your
mind tends to well. Of Wonder you start thinking about what you're going to have for dinner or
about the party you attended last night. So I wanted to know what the most effective method of
taking down all the important points was.

Tutor : Susan if I may interrupt you. What's your strategy for listening to lectures?

Susan: Personally. I always record the lectures so that you can listen to the lecture again
afterwards and make really good notes.I know a lot of people who use this method yet
surprisingly when I talk to students. They felt that it was not such a good method bec ause the
quality of the recording is often very poor. So quite a few preferred to listen for the main points
and take notes. Some even used a form of shorthand, you know, abbreviations and symbols
that sort of thing although everyone agreed that the best way to approach lectures was to do the
required reading beforehand. That way it makes the lecture a lot easier to understand because
you already know something about the topic.

Tutor : Could you tell us something about how students approach their assignments, you know
essays reports that sort of thing.

Susan: Actually, when it came to assignments people were divided on the issue of essay plans
some thought it was a good method of planning others. Well did not think so. Generally though
most students didn't really Express much of an opinion brainstorming however was different,
you know, just sitting down and thinking of as many ideas as you can just about everyone said it
was a really good method of preparing to write an assignment, especially if they got together in
groups this they said was by far the best method because it helped them to really analyze the
issues discussing ideas was the same,in fact many respondents claim they often got together
with friends for the purpose of discussing ideas. Even if they weren't preparing an assignment.
They said it helped them to understand the lectures better and surprisingly enough get better
grades in their exams. Now reading like lectures is a necessary part of student life and we all
know how much time we spend with our head buried deep in a book. But what exactly is the
best way to read? Well, I discovered that hardly anyone tries to read the whole book or even
whole chapters, but skim reading came out as a real favorite. The majority of students I spoke to

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this to be a really effective technique because it saved lots of time and it meant they could
absorb far more knowledge this way.

Before you hear the rest of the conversation, you will have some time to look at
questions 27 to 30.

Now listen and answer questions 27 to 30.

Tutor :Susan in your opinion. What do you think is the biggest problem students face at
University ?

Susan: Time management, What I mean to say is that it is a much underestimated skill and
because it is underestimated, it is an area often neglected by students, especially young
students who are used to other people planning their time for them. So I set about asking
students exactly how they plan their time. Interestingly, however, nearly everyone said that time
management was significant yet few people actually use the technique most commented that
they were too busy with their studies when it came to studies. I found that the vast majority of
students worked part-time generally in the evening, which most respondents claimed was the
best time to study because they'd been thinking about the subject all day and many ideas were
fresh in their minds in fact, they said having to work was the biggest burden they had because it
meant they couldn't study in an evening and had to study on weekends instead when they
needed to relax and forget about their studies.A few of the respondents even said they got up
early in the morning to study on the whole I found that time management is most people's
biggest problem and I feel that more should be done by the University to help students to plan
their time more effectively.

Tutor :Sorry Susan, but I'm going to have to ask you to start wrapping up. Now. We are quickly
running out of time.

Susan: Okay? Well the final component of my research was the dreaded exams now, I don't
know about you but I really hate exams. But when I talked to the students, I found that some
students actually like them. They were very much in the minority though and most students
preferred not to have them. I was of course interested to learn just how students prepare for
their midterm and end of term exams and here people were evenly divided on the issue. I found
that most of the younger students preferred to cram, that is to say, they'd spend many hours just
before the exam trying to learn as much as possible. Some even said they stayed up all night
and never went to bed. And this was because they were too interested in their social life to pay
much attention to exams during the term older students however much more conservative.
They tended to read much more widely and spend time thinking about the topic, making notes
and so forth. They did revise of course, but they rarely spent time cramming.Cramming they
said is of no use because you only remember the information for the duration of the exam and
forget it afterwards.

That is the end of part 3. You now have 30 seconds to check your answers to part 3.

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Part 4

You will hear a student talking about a survey conducted among people of different age
groups to find out how architecture may affect people's lives.First you'll have some time
to look at questions 31 to 40.

Now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40.

My group has been doing a project on the importance of architecture in people's lives and
whether it has any impact on the lives of people in general the main parts I have played is in the
collection of data to find out what effect if any various buildings have on people's mood i.e.,
whether ugly buildings make people unhappy and whether beautiful buildings do the opposite.
We had originally thought of starting measuring people's reactions by using a questionnaire with
about 40 questions, which we were going to hand out to people including students at the
University, but we were worried that doing the questionnaire would be too time-consuming for
people to fill in so we gave up the idea. I then asked several of the postgraduate students for
advice. One of them came up with the simple idea of showing people images of various
buildings from different eras and styles instead of giving out the questionnaire and asking them
to indicate how they felt on a scale of 1 to 5 about the images where one was unhappy and five
was very happy.

People would also be given the option of not saying what they felt.Using the scale meant that it
would be much simpler to record people's reactions. I decided to follow this advice and so the
first stage was to collect a large number of images. I used Google to print off color images of
use of houses and apartment blocks where people live and different types of buildings where
they work. I started with about 30 or 40 and reduced them to ten images.

Media resources in the Amory building at the judge Street branch of the University helped me
produce the final images. I had them blown up to A4 size and we use color rather than black
and white to make the detail on the images clearer. We made five sets of images and for
protection when handling we pasted the images onto a hard card then using a machine to wrap
them with plastic. We laminated the cards. Five of us targeted different age groups. We went to
a local school where we obtained permission to ask a group of teenagers between 11 and 18.
We also asked a sample of the general public including tourists from all over the world as they
exited the Tate modern in London what they thought we aim to ask people from different age
groups namely 20 to 40 and 50 and over. What our group learned most from the project was
first of all the value of teamwork and secondly, we found that we had to appoint a leader to stop
us pulling in different directions and falling apart. So this turned out to be an invaluable lesson
for all of us.

As to the Findings for us. They proved intriguing in the end the sample consisted of 311
respondents. I thought initially that people wouldn't be interested in taking part .With the
youngest age group their reaction was very mixed. It was clear that the youngest group had no

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pattern of preference at all as they frequently gave no reaction to the pictures. For the 20 to 40
age group, we found that they tended to score more in the middle range around three. We found
that out of the three groups the most likely to be favorably affected by the images. That is they
were more likely to score the images as five with those aged 50 and above and nobody in this
age group failed to say what their reaction was which was unique for the three groups.In total I
have to say that about 71 people indicated that they had no reaction at all to an image. Our
general conclusion is that we need to find out more about why people react as they do by
perhaps giving them a chance to give reasons for their decisions. I would like to finish there and
give my teammates a chance to add anything I have missed or take any questions or
suggestions.

That is the end of part 4. You now have one minute to check your answers to part 4.

That is the end of the listening test. In the IELTS test you would now have 10 minutes to
transfer your answers to the answer sheet.

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